Counting cards isn't illegal. It's just that card counters, especially those acting as a team, aren't very popular with casinos.

At least that what Alex thinks when, ruled more by heart than head, he's persuaded by the beautiful Alice Kim to join her and her friends on a trip to play blackjack in Connecticut. He joins the team and things go well for a while. His tuition debt becomes a thing of the past but when things go wrong at a small casino it's Alex who is selected to cash in both the chips and his masculinity so that the outing isn't a total financial loss to the team.

Suddenly Alex's life becomes more complicated than he had ever imagined. Against a background of gambling, violence and intrigue he struggles with his identity, his friendships and his place in society.

This is a novel of flawed characters who often do the wrong things while trying to do the right ones and dubious ones who have no intention of doing the right thing ... ever. Read it to find which is which.

• Part 1 of 16. Mike Check. Check One Two
• Part 2 of 16. Chapter One. Hey
• Part 3 of 16. Chapter Two. Here Comes Your Man
• Part 4 of 16. Chapter Three. Number 13 Baby
• Part 5 of 16. Chapter Four. Crackity Jones
• Part 6 of 16. Chapter Five. Monkey Gone To Heaven
• Part 7 of 16. Chapter Six. Dead
• Part 8 of 16. Chapter Seven. Wave of Mutilation
• Part 9 of 16. Chapter Eight. Tame
• Part 10 of 16. Chapter Nine. Silver
• Part 11 of 16. Chapter Ten. Mr Grieves
• Part 12 of 16. Chapter Eleven. Gouge Away
• Part 13 of 16. Chapter Twelve. Debaser
• Part 14 of 16. Chapter Thirteen. I Bleed
• Part 15 of 16. Chapter Fourteen. There Goes My Gun
• Part 16 of 16. Chapter Fifteen. La La Love You

Thanks to Geoff for the Synopsis :)

Note: This story is complete. Here's an ePub version. If you want to read it the way it was intended to be read, like a novel rather than a serial, that might be your best bet.

As far as I know, Big Closet can't host .mobi files, which is what you need to read on a Kindle. If you want a .mobi, please email me at [email protected] and I'll mail you one. Please understand it might take me a day or so - I don't check that account every day.

Many thanks to Geoff (especially to Geoff, without whom my writing would meander wildly and be full of split infinitives), and to I.O. and Wren for editing and proofing. It's not a small task to undertake on a story this long, and I very much appreciate them taking the risk with this story.

Thanks also to Jayne and Liz for assistance with the Japanese translations.

A Turn of the Cards by Rebecca Anderson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.